<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.  To place me on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.  To place me on that breast of snow   Where I should bloom a wintry flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49686]]></link><description><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61153]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the only absolute thing in the world. Nothing stays the same.Tomorrow will come,with new beginnings and sometimes unexpected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the only absolute thing in the world. Nothing stays the same.Tomorrow will come,with new beginnings and sometimes unexpected endings. You can hold on to the past and get left in the dust, or you can choose to jump on the ride of life and live a new adventure with perseverance and an open mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The loss of the West Bank was a shock to everyone, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The loss of the West Bank was a shock to everyone,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57257]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a chance to look at the females of these times and the strong roles they played in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12244]]></link><description><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63727]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58789]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,  While the slant sun of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,  While the slant sun of February pours   Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!    The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps     And the broad arching portals of the grove      Welcome thy entering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the secularists secular education if they on their side will promise not to have moral instruction. Secular education seems to me intellectually clean and comprehensible. Moral instruction seems to me unclean, intolerable; I would destroy it with fire. Teaching the Old Testament by itself means teaching ancient Hebrew ethics, which are simple, barbaric rudimentary, and, to a Christian, unsatisfying. Teaching moral instruction means teaching modern London, Birmingham and Boston ethics, which are not barbaric and rudimentary, but are corrupt, hysterical and crawling with worms, and which are to a Christian, not unsatisfying but detestable. The old Jew who says that you must fight only for your tribe is inadequate; but the modern prig who says you must never fight for anything is substantially and specifically immoral. I know quite well, of course, that the unreligious ethics suggested for modern schools do not verbally assert these things; they only talk about peaceful reform, true Christianity, and the importance of Count Tolstoy. It is all a matter of tone and implication--but then, so is all teaching. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54212]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20728]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michelle is, without a doubt, one of the best all-around basketball players in the state right now. She is the complete package. Any coach would kill to have her on the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16562]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain in the Ukrainefalls mainlynot on the plains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain in the Ukrainefalls mainlynot on the plains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman that deliberates is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though its different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything it still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and always will be inevitable, but everything is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you just might find yourself on the other side of the coin. Things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item></channel></rss>